Stalled Beam-Out — the Batris Erupts
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Riker calls for a transporter lock, but Tasha over comms reports interference and orders them farther from Engineering. Escape glimmers, then stalls behind static.
A wall of debris slams their route shut; Riker concedes the dead end and demands immediate beam-out. Resolve flips into raw desperation.
The transporter cycle sputters as Tasha feverishly fine-tunes; a boiling cloud races down the corridor and the Batris erupts. Rescue buckles into explosive peril.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Clinically calm and concentrated, Data's outward composure masks the urgency of the situation; he processes options without panic.
Data appears through the torn hatch, proposes a quicker route, scans the stricken man with a tricorder and initiates lifting him before deferring when Korris volunteers to carry the casualty; he remains focused on logistics and casualty assessment.
- • Identify the fastest, safest egress for the group.
- • Assess the wounded's medical status to prioritize treatment or evacuation.
- • Follow commands to facilitate an efficient retreat.
- • Objective assessment yields the best tactical choices.
- • Cooperation between individuals produces the quickest rescue.
- • Preserving life is the operational imperative.
Determined and authoritative on the surface, edged with tense anxiety about failing options and a protective urgency toward his team.
Commander Riker commands the evacuation: prioritizes exiting immediately, points out a wounded third figure, calls the Transporter Room for a lock, and pushes the team to the furthest reachable pickup point as debris and gas close in.
- • Evacuate all team members before the ship detonates.
- • Secure a transporter lock and keep the team moving to safety.
- • Ensure the wounded are taken with them rather than left behind.
- • Immediate action and command decisions save lives.
- • The transporter is their only viable escape under current conditions.
- • Protocol can be subordinated to preserve crew lives.
Visibly alarmed and urgent, channeling concern into terse, technical warnings and rapid action to keep the team moving.
Geordi drives the technical urgency—endorses Data's suggested route, urges haste, warns the group the ship is about to blow, and acts as an on-the-ground sensor for imminent mechanical failure while shepherding evacuees toward the transporter zone.
- • Get the away team to the transporter before the ship explodes.
- • Maintain situational awareness about ship integrity and hazards.
- • Support Data and Riker in executing a rapid extraction.
- • Mechanical/engineering threats escalate quickly and must be respected.
- • Hands-on action and clear communication prevent casualties.
- • Technicians' warnings are critical to tactical decisions.
Stoic resolve guided by a grim sense of duty and honor; calm acceptance of personal risk to fulfill the warrior's responsibility to the wounded.
Korris formally announces himself, then steps forward to shoulder the wounded man personally, insisting on carrying him through debris to the pickup point, acting with grim physicality and ritual duty amid the retreat.
- • Ensure the wounded receives a chance at evacuation and survival.
- • Honor Klingon duty by personally bearing the casualty.
- • Support the allied away team to complete the extraction.
- • Honor requires direct action to protect the fallen.
- • Physical courage and responsibility are primary virtues.
- • Allied cooperation is necessary even between different cultural codes.
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
A handheld medical tricorder is used by Data to scan the stricken man, producing the critical diagnostic 'alive — but just barely' that drives the decision to carry him. The device translates biological state into immediate triage action and short-term priorities.
The torn hatchway is the breach through which Data appears and the team moves; it is both a functional entrance and a visual sign of the ship's structural failure, channeling their movement and limiting maneuverability under pressure.
The wall of debris physically blocks the corridor, creating the 'end of the line' that forces the away team's final stand and the desperate last-minute beam attempt; it converts the retreat into a trap and visually marks the failing options for escape.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
USS Enterprise Transporter Room 4 functions as the remote lifeline: technicians and Tasha struggle to obtain a lock, fine-tune equipment, and fight interference. The room's efforts directly determine whether the trapped away team survives, converting technical failure into dramatic jeopardy.
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Key Dialogue
"GEORDI: "We're out of time, Commander -- the ship's going to blow.""
"TASHA (COM VOICE): "Not yet. Too much interference. You have to get farther away from the Engineering section.""
"RIKER: "End of the line. Transporter Room, we've gone as far as we can. Get us off -- now!""